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Standing on Their Shoulders: Suffragists, Women’s PACs, and Demands for Women’s Representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Rosalyn Cooperman Open the ORCID record for Rosalyn Cooperman [Opens in a new window]  and
Melody Crowder-Meyer
Rosalyn Cooperman
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University of Mary Washington
Melody Crowder-Meyer
Affiliation:
Davidson College
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Although 2018 has been called another “Year of the Woman,” increases in women’s representation that year were party-specific. Historically, women’s organizations fought to expand women’s representation in both parties; however, the fruit of these efforts is currently concentrated among Democrats. Indeed, women contributed funds in record numbers in 2018, but the majority of women donors supported Democratic women candidates (Haley 2018), and liberal women’s political action committees (PACs) played a prominent role in raising those funds.

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Symposium: Women's Political Involvement in the 100 Years since the Nineteenth Amendment
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , July 2020 , pp. 470 - 473
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© American Political Science Association, 2020

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